Political Quotes

“tonight many of us will watch the championship final of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The matchup of last year's champion Arkansas Razorbacks and the return of the team with the most NCAA titles, the UCLA Bruins, will be an exciting conclusion to an excellent tournament. However, nothing can be more exciting than yesterday's NCAA women's basketball championship game during which we saw the undefeated Connecticut Huskies come from behind in the final few minutes to defeat the Tennessee Volunteers. Led by honors student and player of the year, Rebecca Lobo, the Huskies became just the second women's basketball team to finish a season undefeated. Texas accomplished that feat in 1986. The Huskies did it before a sellout crowd of over 18,000 in Minnesota for 2 consecutive days, and television ratings were up 15 percent over last year. The triumph of the Huskies came on the same weekend that there was another triumph for women's sports, when the young women of Brown University continued their streak of courtroom victories against the university for the school's refusal to recognize its responsibilities under title IX to provide equal opportunity to men and women in school, both in the classroom and on the field.”